Blog With XAMPP and WordPress

Want to blog? Grab XAMPP and WordPress and just add prose!

Jason Perlow

Thursday, November 9th, 2006

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If you haven’t noticed, everyone is blogging. From your college roommate to your chief executive, blogs are quickly becoming the preferred way to build personal Web sites and communicate to the masses, on any subject you can possibly write about. Alas, I too am a blogger, and you can find my own mindless drivel about food (you really want to know what chili dog I ate last week, right?), technology, and science fiction (doesn’t everyone have juvenile fantasies about Battlestar Galactica’ s Number Six?) at http://www.offthebroiler.com.

Many people choose to host blogs on free sites such as MovableType.com, Blogger, and TypePad, but this month, let’s look at how to deploy blog software on either your desktop PC or a workgroup server. Why? Well, why not?

Actually, there’s a much better reason than just” why not?”. By installing the blog software on a system that you have administrative control over, you’ve got a lot more flexibility with what you can do with it. For example, many popular blog hosting services, such as WordPress.com and the ones I mentioned above, give you limited control over your blog templates (the web pages that form the aesthetics and layout of the site) and don’t allow you to run custom external scripts or even run Web advertising banners. Also, you may be behind a corporate firewall and want to create a blog to serve out to your internal network, such as via a corporate newsletter or Intranet-related blog application, such such…

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